Each time a new Apple gadget hits mix business, we can expect that there are some funny videos of be.
Now we have a new video, in which the iPad 2 the last week was started in a mixer mixed and to be reduced to dust.
What do you think of will it blend series? What are you gadget when given opportunity mix?
Back in February, HP announced its long-awaited tablet, the HP TouchPad. This device will call has a capacitive 9.7 inch XGA display, processor, 1.3 megapixel to front facing camera for live-video 1.2 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon from the operating system HP WebOS and it and so on. HP has not yet the release date and price this device announced, but according to the guys from PreCentral, HP TouchPad appears finally in June.
HP TouchPad comes with a 9.7 display with 1024 x 768 pixels resolution, 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core processor, front-facing 1.3 megapixel for camera with video call, 3.5 mm audio jack, MicroUSB connector, WLAN b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, stereo Lautsprecher16 GB or 32 GB of internal memory, Browsers with full Flash support, gyro, accelerometer, compass, light sensor and a 6300 mAh battery. This device measures 240 x 190 x 13.7 mm and weighs 1.6 kg.
HP TouchPad is expected in June with a price of just $499 for the 16 release GB variant GB Wi-Fi version and $599 for the 32. HP is expected soon to announce a 7-inch tablet. Codenamed is this tablet as opal and it appears during September 2011. The live photos and hands on video of HP TouchPad, head to this pagecheck-out of.
Now to buy two terminals SIM V1476 or V1611, you'll get free SIM mobile phone Videocon along with continuing validity.
You'll also get 10 local minutes free to any network for next 365 days.
V1476 comes with Dual SIM, dual suspension with TFT screen of big 5 cms (2) the single side is its VGA camera.
It is also compatible with headphone jack 3.5 mm and one may have expandable memory up to 4 GB and the video player that comes with V1476 supports 3Gp and Mp4 videos and may also share animal using bluetooth in movement.
V1476 comes with length 1500 mAh battery that can support up to 5 hours talktime & 13 days standby time.
V1611
• Dual SIM, dual suspension
• TFT screen large 6 cm (2.4)
• A2DP Bluetooth
• Camera of 2 MP with video recorder
• Two stereo speakers with headphone jack 3.5 mm
• Length 2200 mAh battery with up to 12 hours talktime & 60 days standby time
• Expandable memory up to 4 GB
• Support of video (3GP and MP4) Player
M-9000 supports analog TV that will help free channels on your mobile phone anywhere!The phone also comes with a 3.2 MP camera.Phones supported formats, including 3gp, mp4, avi, flv, rm & rmvb.
With WAP/GPRS function in M-9000, you can surf the internet on your phone so that you have the power to connect to the world at any time and anywhere price Rs. 6,699 that the phone will be available black color.
Specifications of projector phone M-9000 Popkorn of spices.
After the fall of the HSBC from 8 to 11, now Vodafone is the only UK brand to be included in the top ten classified according to BrandFinance: 500 Global which is more comprehensive brand value league table the world, ranking of the most valuable brands in all major markets.
Originally conceived as first global mobile brand in the world, the company has managed to increase their brand value by almost 6% in 2010.
Vodafone India (Asia), Africa and Australia investments have continued to boost its global brand presence, with its joint venture in Australia now fully transition to the Vodafone brand. Vodafone is the second largest operator of mobile service with subscriber 130.9 base million in the Indian market.
Despite being the most valuable brand of mobile telecommunications in the world, there are still more upside potential, primarily through its market network of partner - now present in more than 40 markets - which could return value of the Vodafone brand and their business associates
Morten Lundal, group commercial director at Vodafone, he said: our positioning ' to him ' key trademark is gaining increasing relevance as our customers are adopting most advanced smartphones and waiting for their voice solutions and better quality data. "The use of data and the internet on the phone is of 'life' on the 'vital' and our goal is to be preferred partner of our clients in the transition."
MTNL new 3 G data card (Terracom LW272) will be available in all the Sanchar Haats in Delhi on March 22, 2011 onwards. The operator offers free 3 G Prepaid SIM card and transfers (unloading and loading) free data from 2 GB to 1 months in the purchase of the 3 G data card.
MTNL 3 G wireless broadband service comes with attractive data limited and unlimited 3 G tariff plans to start postpaid and prepaid of Rs. 50 to 1650. MTNL also provide "unlimited progress for rent data card Plan", whereas the unlimited data access 3 G will cost effectively in only Rs.750 per month for use of the home and Roam.
MTNL 3 G data card (Terracom LW272) will allow at any time and anywhere instant high speed wireless connectivity to the Internet up to 3.6 Mbit/S for laptop computers and other computing devices, so travellers, roamers and benefit significantly from business users.
There were few confusions, let me first clear them out before I end up topic about last mile.Someone left comment on last post and said The pvt. telcos really think we Indians are idiots are idiots and don’t need high speeds.come on yaar give 8mbps @ 999 with no FUP and see the rush for BB.
Very good confusion!
Let me clear this one. Firstly how many people you think know the difference between 2Mbps and 8Mbps, and how many really need that much speed? Me, you and other folks here do understand what is 8Mbps and what one can do with that, we will be happy to get one, but are we in majority? Infact a study shows top 5% user on broadband network constitute for 57% of resource usage. Why not ISP’s should cut those 5% and make life easy for 95% users?
Next thing, most of us already have broadband and we pay close to 1000Rs a month for that. Point is how many you think are still not having broadband because there’s no 8Mbps@1000 ? If ISP comes with that, they won’t really get new people signing up for service, so what’s the profit?
Airtel is already giving 50Mbps, BSNL is offering 24Mbps for 7000Rs a month. Main reason for such high pricing is the fact that there’s no business model which supports lowering prices. Don’t expect something super rocking from small players as they do sit on Domestic & International bandwidth of big players. They can’t kill of business of big guys sitting on their backbone! (Do you think billion $ companies are that much stupid?)
Next (good) question was = Why low demand is keeping rates high?
Well, reason is broadband is quite different from things like say electricity. Bandwidth is virtually unlimited (as oppsed to case of electricity), but to create that sort of “unlimited” capacities we need heavy infrastructure consisting of fiber links, routers, switches = making backbones, datacenters followed by servers serving that much data on the network. Now if less users use it, it takes cost per user quite high. As more and more users come up, cost/user comes down.
Other question is confusion about wireless broadband. Is wireless broadband cool thing? What about 3G & WiFi?
I would again say here – 3G is good if you come from path like 2G, 2.5G and 3G. It’s very good as for fast connection while on go, but it was never designed to be an alternate of fixed broadband. Reason remains “limited spectrum”. At the end, you have limited spectrum available which carries data. It’s true that HSPA+ can give a real world speeds of 5-6Mbps, but overall capacity is limited, and cannot offer “everyone” with those speeds. That’s why 3G is a good option for low demand areas like Tier 3 cities, Rural areas etc. I myself stay at Rural area during weekdays and I have seen EDGE performs better here as compared to EDGE in New Delhi.
Other part here is = at the end 3G is “just a last mile” technology and it needs significant backhual capacity to provide users with broadband. Most of mobile towers are still running over point-to-point microwave and that itself has limited capacity followed by varying latency. It works well for low bandwidth applications like voice calls but it will be a challenge to provide high speed broadband over 3G over such backhual capacity.
Next point = wifi. Many people have confusions about WiFi & it’s power.
Well, the big reason for success of wifi is fact that it operates in unlicensed spectrum 2.4Ghz. Now unlicensed makes it available for everyone (not like exclusive spectrum which telecos carry). This makes wifi prone to heavy interference. To cover a city like say New Delhi with wifi, it’s a big technical challenge. Firstly, you can’t build big towers like you have for cell phones, because big tower = covering more area = covering more users = too much interference apart from limited 20Mhz spectrum in 2.4Ghz band. And a Ghz band has lot lower penetration then Mhz band (on which telecos operate).
Way out is = small wifi hotspots. To atleast cover whole area with wifi coverage effectively, we need something around 1 hotspot after every 100m. Nearby hotspots will operate on different (non-overlapping) channels of wifi, and will enable 20Mhz of bandwidth per hotspot. This way is again = good for wireless/handheld devices where you tend to consume “decent” amount of data in sending emails/chats/ a couple of videos etc. It still can’t give a 8Mbps to each home user, enabling them to download 2-3GB of data in a day.
In real = most of projects which started to provide city-wide wifi in Western countries = failed. Technically it seems like a non-feasible idea, apart from fact when you build hotspots after every 100m, you need a wired backhual to feed those access points, apart from constant power feed (which is again not easily available) creating economical challenges. WiFi hotspots will become more popular in crowded areas like Airports, Malls, theatres etc of big cities as here aim is mainly to offload peak traffic from cell phone networks. Aim of such wifi network is not to give a super high speed broadband on cheap rates (to home users), but to provide a high speed connection for limited usage on go.
Bottom line = there seems NO wireless technology available till now which can give you high speed broadband experience and is scalable. You will get point about scalability once you will see choked 3G networks after few months!
Other confusion = capacity of fiber optics.
Many people feel fiber optics offer almost unlimited capacity and we can do anything. It’s half correct. To understand capacity on fiber optics, understand it as “free open space” outside. Now to run a car/bus smoothly on that “big space” you need to build road. Fiber is much like that. In peak rates, you can have 10Gbps/wavelength of bandwidth over single-pair (2cables, one for sending and one for receiving). Now you can have 160 wavelenghs (peak) over such pairs uding DWDM. This takes capacity to as high as 1.6Tbps over single pair. Most of fiber pairs deployed on backbone are like 100-200pair fibers and this takes theoretical peak bandwidth to as high as 100Tbps. But here one big thing is = fiber is just a media = just a part of network. There are lot more components required in such networks, which are still bottleneck. BSNL’s core network is still at just 10Gbps, and they are upgrading it to 40Gbps. Just an upgrade from 10Gbps to 40Gbps needs over few thousand crore’s of investment over new equipment (other then fibers). So in theory = yes fiber has almost unlimited capacity, but in real it’s limited due to economical factors.
In case of Verizon FiOS (one of biggest fiber to home deployments in US) they give 50-100Mbps of bandwidth. They can surely take it high to 4-5Gbps, but to offer end users that much bandwidth, they need to upgrade backhual capacity and that needs more investment.
Here’s a summary of (popularly) available last mile options:
Wired (twisted pair phone lines)Has enough bandwidth to serve existing needs for India. It seems OK atleast till end of 2012.Only BSNL+MTNL hold most of copper and their “unions” are not permitting Govt. to unbundle last mile for other operators. For new players, DSL doesn’t seems like long lasting due to limited bandwidth.Distance is big limitation of DSL After 1Km distance from exchange, it’s gets too noisy to provide high speed broadband.Has lot more bandwidth then DSL. Using technologies like DOCSIS 3.0, ISP’s can easily provide broadband speeds of 50Mbps over coaxial.In India there’s hardly any big cable tv operators. Super high fragmentation limits their size, apart from fact most of last mile co-axial is badly managed and doesn’t supports two way Internet. We need totally new infrastructure, and in age of fiber, big guys tend to ignore such heavy investment.Wireless over 2100 band (with recently allocated) 5Mhz spectrumOne of very cheap deployments for broadband. Just needs investment in upgrading equipment on existing towers and increase in backhual capacity. In low demand and low ARPU’s it can surely help.Allocated spectum is way too less for most of broadband needs. 5Mhz is way to less and can’t provide everyone with good broadband speeds in big cities.Wireless over 802.16e over recently allocated 20Mhz spectrumBetter then 3G technologies. Is more scalable, and good enough to support decent need of mobile broadband.BIG problem here is limited spectrum. Cities like New Delhi need over 200Mhz spectrum, while allocated is hardly 10% of that. Apart from that, globably WiMax seems failing agaist it’s competitior LTE. Thus overall ecosystem is also a problem for WiMax.Wireless over 2.4Ghz on 802.11n.Global standard, and can be used on almost all laptops and most of new handheld devices. Spectrum is open and thus free for ISP’s to use for deployment. No heavy spectrum fees.Open spectrum makes it terribly prone to interference, apart from limited bandwidth of 22Mhz. To cover big area, wifi needs lots of Access Points & to serve them itself is a challenge.Extremely scalable, and supports super high bandwidth. Technically one of best available technologies for broadband deployment.Needs completely new infrastructure, and it’s costs a lot. Low ARPU makes it very hard to deploy such technology. Apart from that cost of termination electronics is yet to come down. Slicing fibers, connections, etc all needs trained technicians as opposed to current low-trained “linemans” and that also makes it expensive.Well my post seems again going too big to cover next part. Will cover rest in next post 
Comments are always welcome!
About the author:
Anurag is a Student and a part time network admin at dito.
He is all around network related technologies like DNS, Internet routing, servers, connectivity etc. He is also one of Power Posters at Official Google Apps forum and is involved in deployment of Google Apps.
Anurag is doing bachelors in Information & Technology from a State college in Haryana.
Known as the 'All India Pack', Uninor clients can meet their needs during this festive season voice at minimal cost.
The package of India all available for a charge of Rs. 199 provides 500 STD and local minutes to any supplier of services anywhere in the India. In addition, customers can also enjoy 500 local Uninor Uninor minutes. The package is valid for 30 days.
Mr. Satish Kumar Kannan, head of business, circle of AP, Uninor, said, "Uninor is innovating constantly to bring the services and products that will benefit customers the most." With the auspicious season, we are pleased to announce a system exclusively for voice calls that will help our clients to connect to their near and dear in a very low rate. This is just one of our forms to some color and emotion in the communications of our customers needs.
The search engine giant Google has its own resources and energy to put first Android.Con these two giant companies develop their own operating systems from Mobile heat is in the mobile market knocking Symbian and other operating systems.
We can clearly see the competition between the developed applications and devices that are sold throughout the world. Google is trying to integrate all their desktop to mobile services to provide all its services through Android OS. Really speak of applications for iOS are more numerous in comparison with Android (because the market of us all is dependent IOS) but the fee for application for Android is growing rapidly.
One finds it is very difficult to compare between an IPhone from Apple and Google Android, because they are not the same when integrates Hardware and software together. An IPhone comes so much integrated Hardware and Software together, but this is not the case with Android.
Android Hardware may be the best but the software that integrates may not be perfect to meet the needs of hardware and, therefore, a bad result. With this in mind we have now a comparison between these two operating systems.
IOS
The first and most important advantage of IOS is its simplicity in the use of the interface. Even children can use the IOS with ease and comfort. Tons of iPhone apps to date and continues to grow.
Android
Android bought a revolution in the UI after people are fed-top with the user interface and Symbian icons boring. Tons of Android applications and continues to grow.
Applications in IOS used better graphics, have better user interface and are very easy to use.Android applications using basic graphics and all the functionality found in the menus are hidden in options.Apple says NO to support Flash. Supports only two platforms, HTML5 and its App.Una store version Beta of Flash Player 10.1 available in 2.2. Desktop Android and navigation experience.Apple provides support for its services such as music, books and applications throughout your store ITunes, IBooks store and MobileME services. Service of local backup available when cloud services fail.Google offers applications integrated into the operating system only for its services such as Gmail, calendar, Gtalk contacts, Android Market and support for all other additional services as the music, backup of data and synchronization are provided by third-party applications.One of the most important advantage of IOS what we find is that all IOS devices obtain the most recent software updates are available, so each device with supported hardware Gets the latest available software update.Although Google launches the latest version of software updates for every six months, not all Android devices obtain the software update, only a few devices receive the update. This is purely dependent on specific production of phone. So that a specific model can have the best hardware but an obsolete system operating. Only a very small percentage of Android users are running the latest operating system available to date.There is very little tweaking and customization allowed iOS. You must do so in the form of Apple, either it is not an option. These limits allow iOS products to work very well within the space protected as rules established by Apple. However, if you have the need or desire to do something that is not within the limits of Apple for iOS (and can not create an application to manage it) either leave it to luck!The operating system Android is open and so hardware manufacturers can understand and do almost anything they want to with it. This is one of the main reasons why the devices do not receive software updates as soon as they become available. Device manufacturers are tweaking the user interface to add their own interface as HTC Sense, SAMSUNG Touch Wiz etc.. This can happen or not and, therefore, the upgrade fails leaving the user with obsolete OS.Apple can design hardware that best adapts to your software and make the device a piece master packaged.This is not the case with Android, different generation of different manufacturers Hardware and Android must comply with it.Other features/disadvantages: multitasking, native to Video Chat support, subprocesamiento, unified email inbox conversations, copy paste, folders, internet tethering, No Wi-Fi hot, Flash does not support, No Widgets, without removable storage.Other features/disadvantages: multitasking, support for video chat for add on apps, support of HTML5, unified inbox, view threaded conversations, Flash support of browser, internet tethering, Wi-Fi Hotspot supports up to 8 devices, paste copy of support, foldersmedia from removable storage, support for Widgets.But one thing is clear, unless or until that Google puts restrictions to manufacturers of mobile with respect to the operating system updates are available for customers cannot have the blessings of their hardcore fans who possess an Android!
But all this does not mean that Ios is ahead of Android OS. While Google is developing Android with its support and services,Android is still as a giant with millions of devices sold every minute in the world and also be an open-source is a great advantage for Android, as well as its developers.
Despite all the advantages and disadvantages of each village of operating system you are using your mobile device, operating system knew the power of your operating system and are able to agree what!
In the aftermath of the entire global nuclear warfare, mankind abandoned the surface of the Earth, and is a network of underground tunnels. The few that stayed up were radioactive contaminated by radioactive dust. The results of life status horrifying…
A man was not to be on the job, which he still main page called. They named him crazy… Crazy John…
Name: Crazy John| Download from: app store | Price: Free
The performance on the IOS compares the guys from Gsmarena 2 with the old iPad. On the next page on the iPad 2vs iPad performance view to test over head. Enjoy!
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Here's a preview of the Blobster app for iOS devices. Go to the next page to the gameplay map video. Enjoy!
In the aftermath of the entire global nuclear warfare, mankind abandoned the surface of the Earth, and is a network of underground tunnels. The few that stayed up were radioactive contaminated by radioactive dust. The results of life status horrifying…
A man was not to be on the job, which he still main page called. They named him crazy… Crazy John…
Name: Crazy John| Download from: app store | Price: Free
The performance on the IOS compares the guys from Gsmarena 2 with the old iPad. On the next page on the iPad 2vs iPad performance view to test over head. Enjoy!
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Here are a few more pictures of Polyply that super cool custom made iPhone / iPad / iPod was. Check out the pictures after the break. Enjoy!
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Get ready to experience the ultimate hockey experience with hockey Nations 2011! Choose your team from 18 international teams or play your favorite team from anywhere around the world by adjusting one of the 40 available city teams. Replete with hockey action of 7 game modes of practice mode to World League, is hockey Nations 2011 all Puckhead International Ice Warrior of ever turn into one. Hit the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth multiplayer mode and cause you some icy mayhem with your friends while out in the battle for the trophy glory. Is puck what you wait dropping-?
Name: Hockey Nations 2011| Download from: app store | Price: $1
A new projector has spice mobile phone called the pop corn with the model number M-9000. The unique feature of this phone is the integrated projector you can to see films and documented on a big screen.
The pop corn boasts also analog TV which means that you can see some free-to-air TV channels. There is also reference to a document viewer and laser pointer. The document viewer supports Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files. As the most projector phones this one poor is one with only 3.5 hours talk time life and we are not sure whether the projector usage includes. But the price point is certainly attractive and spice is also air show while a few of these could help the Cricket World Cup for this handset, which they sell.
Quad-band GSM support 850/900/1800/2100 MHzColour display with 320 × 240 pixels resolution1200 mAh BatteryTalktime: 3.5 HoursStandby time: 300 hours3. 2 MP camera with 15 FPS video RecordingMemory: 87 MB built and memory card with maps of 16GBSMS, MMS, EmailJavaMP3 player video PlayerFM radio with RecordingWAP UnterstützungGPRS, BluetoothWebCamRemote control PC via BluetoothThe handset is on the market for a price of RS. 6699 (MRP) in life launched and is expected to RS. 6000 in some shops available are.
About a month ago, I decided to take the plunge for a new Android device. My choice boiled down between the HTC Desire Z and the Motorola Milestone 2 that we reviewed earlier, as I want or more accurately need, a physical QWERTY keyboard on my phone. I eventually went for the Desire Z as the Milestone 2 wasn’t yet available in Lebanon, and I have always wanted to own an HTC device.
Here is a hardware tour gallery of my HTC Desire Z’s Super-LCD touchscreen, metallic clad and Qwerty goodness.
When closed and placed on a table, the HTC Desire Z looks like a regular modern touchscreen device: there’s no hint as to its sliding keyboard. The front of the device is taken by the 3.7? SuperLCD capacitive touchscreen, surrounded by a black border and covered by what seems to me like some tough glass. I have been using my unit for a month, not being really careful as to where I am putting it, and there isn’t a single or tiny scratch on it. Above the screen is an “htc” engraving with the ear speaker. There’s also an invisible proximity sensor and light sensor that are well hidden in the black area.
A silver metallic rim encircles all of these and it extends to the sides of the device. This mix of glass and metal gives the Desire Z an elegant look and the feel of a superior build quality. HTC has sure come a long way from plastic cheap devices, and it shows a lot in their recent line-ups of devices.
The four Android buttons are touch sensitive and placed directly below the screen, they light up in white in dark environments. The touch trackpad is centered and has a smooth feel to it, allowing you to scroll lists, around the browser, inside applications, or while writing text more accurately than by using the touchscreen. It’s also a physical button, so pressing it will emulate an “ok” click.
The Desire Z fits well in the hand, even a small one like mine, and its overall size hits that sweet spot of being large with a great touchscreen without being too big to hold and use in one hand.
The Desire Z’s back is taken in great part by the battery cover. This one is made from the same metal surrounding the screen, and helps give the Z a premium feel. The rest of the back is made from a dark grey plastics that is rubberized to the touch.
Beneath the battery cover, you can find the Lithium-ion 1300 mAh battery. Remove that, and you will get access to the SIM card and microSDHC card slots. The Desire Z ships with an 8GB card installed in the phone.
Below the battery cover, you will see a very subtle “With HTC Sense” engraving on the plastics, that appears more clearly in other light conditions, and that prepares you to be greeted with HTC’s own layer of Sense UI, launcher, camera, widgets and services.
On the top of the battery cover is the only mono loudspeaker on the Desire Z. It won’t fill the room with music, but it is loud enough for average use. Next to that is the 5 Megapixel camera with its one LED flash. This definitely isn’t the selling point of the Z, but for regular mobile photography, it will do great. It can Autofocus really close on Macro shots, the LED flash can be used as a flashlight and for video, however the colors always come up a bit washed out and night shots aren’t that terrific. The camera is capable of shooting video in HD and that should make up for the still shots shortcomings.
The right side of the Desire Z shows two buttons: the two-stage camera shutter button, and below it is the snatch to open the battery cover. The camera button is on the upper portion of the slider, while the snatch is obviously on the lower one.
The Desire Z’s left side has the volume buttons rocker and the microUSB plug for charging and connecting it to a computer.
Both of these are on the lower slider portion, so that when you slide open the keyboard, you would still have access to them without having to reach out.
The top of the Desire Z has the 3.5 mm plug for headsets and the power/lock button.
The lower side of the Desire Z is clean, with only the microphone showing up. In the below picture, you can see that and also see how the Desire Z’s slider is divided.
The Desire Z features HTC’s new Z-hinge mechanism. There are two middle portions, and one of them is related to the lower slider part while the other is for the upper part. Push open the Desire Z and you can see how these separate while the screen lifts up.
The screen does a half circular motion, going up then falling down, so that it sits flush next to the keyboard. This design makes the Desire Z flatter when open than when it is closed, unlike simple sliding keyboards that only move the screen away while keeping the same thickness.
The weight is well divided across all sections so when open, the Desire Z is very stable and feels slim in your hands.
Let’s go back to the opening mechanism. From this angle, you can see the 3 vertical plastic levers (one on the left and two on the right) used to hold the screen and keyboard together, as well as a horizontal bar that keeps the levers together. Also visible is a large black electronic cable that connects the screen to the chipset in the lower half.
One of the many criticisms people have been giving the Desire Z is the fact that the hinge is largely reliant on gravity. Start from either a closed or open position, and hold the device upside down by the keyboard half: the screen half will simply fall open midway like shown below. This gravity effect doesn’t show when the device is held with the screen side up. This quirk does get annoying if you’re lying back on a sofa or in bed and holding the phone above you, you will struggle to keep the keyboard closed or open. However, it’s a limited scenario, and more often than not, you will find the hinge solid enough for everyday use.
If you flip over the Z with the keyboard open, you can notice a dotted pattern on the back of the screen half as well as two of the levers.
The keys on the keyboard are slightly raised and well differentiated. They offer a small travel between keys and a nice tactile feedback. The first day or two of using the Desire Z, I felt that the keys were a bit stiff, however with regular use, it became a lot easier and more responsive. One month of daily use later, I am totally in love with the keyboard and I wouldn’t trade it for any on-screen keyboard in the world. It’s just great!
The keyboard is a 4-row one, with the numbers occupying the second function on the upper row. The rest of the keys offers quick access to punctuation and symbols. There are 2 Fn and 2 Shift keys on each side of the keyboard, separate Tab, Symbol and @ keys. However, one of the nice surprises of the Desire Z were the dedicated Menu and Search buttons, letting you access functions inside many applications without having to reach for the screen. Also available are two shortcut buttons you can assign to launch any application on your device, so you can easily open them whatever you’re doing.
Another feature of the Desire Z is that any key on the keyboard can be assigned as a shortcut to launch an application with a long press, but that only works from the homescreen so as not to interfere with the regular typing process.
Comparing the Desire Z with another modern smartphone with a similar form factor, the Nokia E7, shows that it’s slightly more compact.
The Desire Z however features a flat design when open, while the Nokia E7 opens with a tilt putting the screen at an angle facing you, like a miniature laptop.
Overall, after a month of regular use of the Desire Z, I keep going back to appreciating its elegant design and premium feel. In a world dominated with cheap plastic smartphones that compromise on the materials to get a lower cost, it was a nice surprise to see an attention to detail put into the Z. Also, thanks to its Z-hinge and keyboard, it stands out from the flood of Android competition, while not compromising much on the specifications sheet.
What do you think of the Desire Z’s hardware design and materials? Does the Z-hinge and keyboard appeal to you as providing a different experience from other Android devices, or are you content with touch-only devices with on-screen keyboards?
